High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Google’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
This clause extends the user's contractual obligations to cover cross-product conduct, making violations of other Google products' terms a breach of this agreement as well.
This clause makes users contractually responsible not only for their own conduct but also for any third party they allow to misuse the Service in these ways.
The no-refund rule applies to any termination, meaning the user forfeits all fees paid regardless of the reason for or circumstances of termination.
A $500 aggregate ceiling means that regardless of the scale of harm suffered, the maximum financial recovery from Google under this agreement is $500.
This clause restricts Google from using GTM data across its other products unless the user has consented, providing a meaningful data-sharing boundary.
These terms govern how you may use Google Tag Manager and require you to follow Google's use policy, privacy policy, and EU consent rules. You are personally responsible for ensuring …
This document sets the rules for businesses using Google Analytics, requiring them to tell their own users that Google Analytics is collecting and processing data on their behalf. If the …
By using Chrome or ChromeOS, you automatically agree to two sets of Google terms. The built-in AVC video technology is licensed only for personal, non-commercial use—if you use it in …
YouTube Ads collects information about what you do across Google's services — including your location, searches, and videos watched — and uses automated systems to assign you ad interest categories …
These terms set the rules for using any Google service: you keep your access only as long as you follow the rules, and Google can suspend or delete your account …
This document sets out Google's principles for how it will build and use AI responsibly. Google commits to only releasing AI where the benefits clearly outweigh the risks, to actively …
Google updated its Terms of Service on April 19, 2026, making several material changes to warranty disclaimers, scope of applicability, and policy references. The updated terms now explicitly state that …
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Google's Privacy Policy covers Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and every site running Google Analytics. Here is what it actually authorizes.
AI Mode, AI Overviews, and embedded advertising are shifting search from referral infrastructure toward platform-contained answers.
ConductAtlas tracks 6 Google documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Google has made 9 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 149 provisions across Google's tracked documents. 19 are rated high severity, 95 medium, and 35 low.
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